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English Material for students of Class 9 under the Central Board of Secondary Education.
The Snake is trying Most of us think of snakes as fearsome symbols of death. But the snake in this poem is itself a victim. POEM .. The Snake Trying The snake is trying to escape the pursuing stick, with sudden curvings of thin long …
Unit 4 Look at the pictures and identify who they are. Write their names in the given spaces. The quotes against each picture may also help you recognise them. 1st picture … Rabindranath Tagore 2nd picture .. Albert Einstein 3rd picture .. Helen Keller 4th …
Let’s Begin: The story of ‘The Little Girl’, in Beehive, is about the changing attitude of a girl child towards her father. • As you are grown up now, you may want to interact with your parents on many issues. How will you go about …
Unit 2 1. What kind of music is Ravi Shankar famous for? (a) Jazz (b) Classical (c) Pop Ans .. Classical 2. Which country was Justin Beiber born in? (a) USA (b) India (c) Canada Ans .. Canada 3. How many strings does a guitar …
Text I – The Future Cars Questions and answers 1. How will the self-driving cars or driverless cars be safe? Answer – Driverless cars will be driven by computerized control systems using highly sophisticated software. Absence of humans at the wheels will eliminate human errors that …
The Adventures of Toto Think about it. 1. How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo? Ans .. The grandfather was an animal lover. He happened to see Toto miserably held captive by a Tonga driver. The discomfort in Toto’s face kindled pity in the …
The Lost Child by Mulk Raj Anand Think about it …. What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind? Ans. For the innocent child, the walk to the fair was a unique experience. He saw …
Kathmandu Para 1.. Vikram Seth has a pronounced wanderlust that has taken him to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. His uncle …
A Legend of Northland by Phoebe Cary Stanza 1.. Away, away in the Northland, Where the hours of the day are few, And the nights are so long in winter That they cannot sleep them through; Explanation .. The story is set in a …
No Men are Foreign Have you ever thought of some people as strange, or other countries as ‘foreign’? We have many ways of thinking of other people as different from ‘us’, as ‘them.’ ‘They’ may belong to a different country, or speak a different language. …